Her good pleasure and honest smile leaves no one indifferent. Despite her long years of media exposure, Bernarda remains firm on the ground, open and pleasant. In her private life she's just the way she is on TV, except that she wears more comfortable clothing.

What does your normal – if you have a even have it - working week look like? Viewers spend a good hour with you on Monday afternoons. Getting prepared for the show must take all week.
Hmm, it would be very difficult to speak about my work and divide it into hours. It's a creative process. In a way you could say I breathe with it. Wherever I go, whatever inspiring I see, read, experience, whoever I meet – a part of my brain always thinks whether those things could be presented in the Good hour (note: translated into English »Dobra ura z Bernardo« means »Good hour with Bernarda«). The more you know and the more you experience makes you a better host and more creative TV person. That's why hosting a TV show can't be considered a normal job, which begins and ends once you walk through the door of our TV.
All through your career you've always been closely tied to language. After all you studied Slovenian language. Do you think Slovenians have a good relationship with their language? Do we know how to use it correctly?
There was a time when everyone said English would eat us alive, but today there's no talk about that anymore.
The relationship to a language and language culture depends on every individual. The same goes for other cultural fields as well. So it's difficult to talk about a general attitude that Slovenians have towards language. I am not one of those experts on Slovenian language who feel like throwing up when they hear mistakes. I do think though that we should pay attention to the level of Slovenian language when used in the public media. However when you communicate with someone in a more relaxed and open way, it's good to keep in mind that language is a live organism that changes together with the ones who speak it. Personally I have no fears for the Slovenian language. "I love you" doesn't even get close to caressing or warming up a Slovene heart as the words "ljubim te".

You're known for your nice and proper Slovenian, but surely you must get carried away sometimes? Does your origin from Brestanica ever come up to the surface?
It seems to me that people might have two mother tongues. The first is the dialect in which you were born and first spoke, and the other is the standard proper language, which we later become accustomed to. Regardless of the knowledge and effort of the speaker, everyone can make a mistake or a slip up. But before we start crucifying someone, we have to make a clear distinction between ignorance and slip-ups in speech. And yes, the more emotional I feel, the bigger the possibility to wander off in the dialect in which the first and most tender words were whispered to me.

Many things happen in front of the camera and behind the camera, slip-ups that viewers don't even notice. What's the thing that made you laugh the most? And what upset you the most?
People often ask me to tell an anecdote, but very often the things that seem incredibly funny at one point, lose the humour when they're retold. And regarding the things that have upset me, it would be a pity to revoke those memories again (laugher). When shows are live you have to be prepared for everything. Mario Galunič once put it very well, and since I can't put it better, I'll quote him: "You know what's supposed to happen in the studio, but you never know what's really going to happen."
Being a popular TV face brings privileges, but on the other hand you're always under the wakeful eye of the public. Do you sometimes get a better piece of meat at the butcher's, only because you are Bernarda Žarn? And do you always make sure not to go outside with messy hair?
The years have taught me not to burden myself with those things and sometimes I do leave my house uncombed (laughter). Sometimes the mornings are too short, sometimes a day is too difficult. Life in general is too diverse and too precious, and my meaning so unpredictable, to be caught up in an endless hunt for perfection. With your question, you just reminded me of other more symbolic and less concrete meanings of the verb "biti počesan" (to be combed). It would be a pity to lose your playfulness, on the account of always making sure to be combed.